"They're so bored they're getting sick, burying pipes under the trees."
Zhang Xiaojuan looked completely bewildered, grabbing the little mouse on her shoulder, "Xin Juju, do you know what's going on here?"
"I had only heard that the boss had acquired this land to build a golf course, and that outsiders couldn't just come in. As a homebody, there was even less chance that I would come."
Zhang Xin knew nothing when asked, which angered Zhuangzhuang so much that he pinned him to the ground and rubbed him several times.
Xu Yi lowered his narrow eyes and pulled Lu Sheng back slightly. "Everyone be careful. There may be a lot of remotely controlled devices hidden under this forest."
Everyone followed Xu Yi's gaze.
Below the pit were neatly arranged pipes and precision metal parts, one of which, along with a section resembling a machine tool, had a fresh, dark red tinge on its edge.
Zhang Xiaojuan cautiously leaned forward and peeked inside, then turned back with a look of horror in her eyes. "There's a pointed metal tube inside, with a few strands of meat hanging from the end..."
"No wonder Xiao Meng couldn't react; this thing suddenly popped out from underground."
The group exchanged bewildered glances, their hearts sinking even deeper.
Now that I am in the shadows while my enemy is in the open, they are already at a disadvantage. Countless hidden weapons lie beneath our feet; one wrong step could mean certain death.
"Everyone, stay alert and keep an eye on what's happening underground." Ma Dongmei didn't look well, but she still forced herself to be cheerful and reassure the K3 team members.
"How the hell are we supposed to be careful? There are traps everywhere!" The middle-aged man who had just argued with Ma Dongmei suddenly scratched his head anxiously. "Why do we have to be so stubborn and investigate Oasis? Let them borrow whatever they want, can't we just mind our own business?"
"Young Master Su, why don't we go back now? Let's just live our own lives and not worry about others."
"Tianye! What are you saying!" Lin Xiaobao interrupted the man's complaint sharply.
The already tense atmosphere of the K3 team fell into an awkward silence after Tianye's few words.
At first, they thought Oasis was just an ordinary private company and did not expect such a big risk.
Now, witnessing firsthand the immense technological productivity within the oasis, and with Xiao Meng, who had already reached the fourth rank, silently dying beside them, everyone's doubts about the success of this mission have been raised.
Now, with Tianye stirring things up again, many people have become hesitant.
"Young Master Su... how about..." someone cautiously suggested.
Su Zheng's face was full of anger as he cut the man off decisively, "The Oasis Group has been constantly encroaching on smaller bases and has already formed a force to be reckoned with. Even if we want to stay out of it, once the other bases are swallowed up by Oasis, K3 will sooner or later become a thorn in Oasis's side."
"You soldiers have a sense of duty, but I don't! I'm just trying to make a living, I never thought I'd actually risk my life with you..."
Suddenly, Tian Ye angrily threw his backpack on the ground and said, "If you want to die, then keep going. I'm going home."
After saying that, he turned and ran away.
However, the next second, a sharp black shadow flashed by.
Tianye felt a sharp pain on his neck and instinctively looked down to see a slender, speed-type female zombie lying on his chest.
"Hehe..."
The female zombie smiled sweetly, then bit off Tianye's vocal cords.
"Uh..."
Tianye glared angrily, desperately clutching the wound on his throat with both hands, and stumbled back towards Su Zheng's direction.
Crimson blood gushed from between his fingers, quickly staining his military green vest reddish-brown.
"Help...me...ah..."
Tianye, like a running blood gourd, staggered to Ma Dongmei, uttering muffled, hoarse syllables before collapsing to his knees and dying.
The unexpected incident immediately put everyone present on edge.
"Lu Sheng...they're here!" Zhuangzhuang's radar went off the charts instantly.
The next second, a series of hooting sounds suddenly came from the lush bushes.
Lu Sheng looked up sharply and around. With their location as the center, countless pairs of gray and turbid eyes suddenly appeared within a radius of several dozen meters.
Those putrid, unfocused eyes stared intently at the two small teams like prey, emitting constant hoarse noises—a level of terror that could instantly kill someone with trypophobia.
"Damn, how come there are so many zombies all of a sudden?" Zhang Xiaojuan immediately summoned a one-meter-high earthen wall around her, trying to temporarily slow down the zombie onslaught.
"Zhuangzhuang, what level are these zombies?" Lu Sheng calmly patted the cat's head.
Zhuangzhuang's big tail was already standing up nervously. While pawing at the excited rocket, it expanded its perception field, "The lowest is at the third rank, and most of them are at the fourth rank."
"Is the boss planning to raise a poisonous insect, luring the dog in to kill it?" Zhang Xin nervously slipped into Zhang Xiaojuan's shirt pocket.
"Xin Juju, can you please watch your words? Who's the dog here?!"
As soon as Zhang Xiaojuan finished speaking, the horde of zombies in the bushes could no longer contain themselves and launched an attack on the group.
"Aww!"
As a fourth-tier zombie charged into the crowd, countless mid-tier zombies pounced on the K3 team and Lu Sheng like a suicide squad.
These zombies were different from the ones Lu Sheng and her companions had encountered before.
Although fourth-tier zombies have some consciousness and perception, they are basically equivalent to the single-celled level of a paramecium.
But these fourth-tier zombies not only moved in unison, but had even begun to learn how to combine their superpowers.
"Oh no, the Douluo Continent has invaded the zombie world, and they've even come up with the Martial Soul Fusion Technique."
After being hit by a water-type and ice-type mixed doubles attack, Zhang Xiaojuan exclaimed in surprise.
"These zombies are strange. Is someone directing them from behind the scenes? Otherwise, how could they be so organized?"
After frying the two level-four zombies into golden-brown crisps with fireballs, Lü Song turned to look at Lu Sheng.
Seeing that the number of zombies was increasing, Lu Sheng simply patted the rocket's big butt.
"Eat whatever you want, but don't get the fur dirty."
Upon hearing that there was a buffet, Rocket roared with excitement, circled Lu Sheng twice, and then charged out with a whoosh.
The gigantic electric wolf swept through like a tank, its enormous maw flashing wildly.
In just two or three minutes, hundreds of zombies were already lying neatly on the floor.
With more food, people become picky. Even Rocket started to be picky, only eating the tenderest parts of the zombie's thigh meat and heart, leaving the tattered corpses piled up in disgust.
"Dig out all the crystal cores, don't waste them."
Lu Sheng calmly greeted everyone.
"Why do these zombies have cameras on them?" Lu Song pulled a miniature infrared camera off a female zombie.
Is this a film about people and nature?
"All the zombies have it; it's not an isolated case. These zombies are definitely suspicious; someone must be deliberately arranging for them to approach us!"
Xu Yi bent down and picked up the miniature device clipped to the zombie's collar. "This is a motion capture device. These devices are recording our battle with the zombies."
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